Kesler v. Stults

1. “The broker’s commissions are earned when, during the agency, he finds a purchaser ready, able, and willing to buy, and who actually offers to buy on the terms stipulated by the owner.” Civil Code, § 3587. “Usually the word ‘sale’ denotes a completed, mutually binding contract; but under contracts creating the ordinary relationship of principal and real-estate broker, and providing commissions for the latter, the broker has made a sale whenever, through his influence, a person ready, able, and willing to buy on the terms proposed is brought to the principal, though, through the fault or…